Diamonds fall in Sierra Leone production amid smuggling history
Sierra Leone sees a sharp drop in diamond mining with exports sliding from 43.4 million in 1961 to 22.4 million by 1962. The shift follows the end of the monopoly by Sierra Leone Selection Trust and a push to license native diggers, amid broader hopes for outside aid.
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Wilbur G. Landrey
United Press International
Freetown, Sierra Leone
UPI
Sierra Leone
Ireland
Sierra Leone Selection Trust
Africa
Nigeria
Ghana
Freetown
Cuba says capture eight hijackers linked to Key Elbow op
Cuban government announced eight counterrevolutionaries were captured after hijacking two Cuban fishing boats to haul arms for guerrilla operations in central Cuba. The men, said to be connected to the U S Central Intelligence Agency, were seized near La Soalas Province. The report ties the incident to a prior attack on an American shrimp boat and notes the hijackers were transported via an armed vessel to the United States.
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George Arfeld l
Havana
Cuba
Key Elbow
Key Sal
Bahamas
Florida Straits
Cuban Armed Forces Ministry
Gulf of Mexico
U.S
Ineicerce Agency
Communique II
United States
iCuba
Illinois exhibitor tops bred gilt at Duroc Congress
About 80 breeders from 10 states entered 200 breeding animals and 35 barrows at the National and Southwestern Duroc Winter Type Congress and Sale held at Panhandle South Plains Fair grounds. Champion bred gilt owned by Melvin Feik of LaMoille Illinois. Forkners CC Farms Horton Missouri led on foot in barrow judging. sale set for 12 30 p m with auction hosted by Joan Hall of Aberdeen South Dakota and Ken Bozeman of Lubbock.
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Forkners CC Farms
Horton
Melvin Feik
LaMoille
Ill
Strowold Farms
Bowling Green
Panhandle South Plains Fairgrounds
Joan Hall
Abberdeen
S.D
Ken Bozeman
Lubbock
LaVern Weller
Dwight, Ill
Tom Rowe Jr
Joe Dimig
Atlantic
Iowa
Burbank Student Farm
San Antonio
J. R. Bishop
Minden
Feik
Forkners Farms
F. H. Christian
LaPorte City
Ski Run Set for Gemini Test Landings
The Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston will use a portable ski run to simulate two man Gemini landings. The craft will be hung on an overhead track and fired into water sand and different terrains. A catapult will launch the ship from the rack at landing speed.
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Houston
Manned Spacecraft Center
Gemini
Cooper Student To Compete For Princess Title
Francis Kubacak, a Cooper High School sophomore and Cooper FFA member, enters the South Plains Junior Livestock Show Princess Contest among about 40 entrants. The fair runs March 18 19 and 20 at the South Plains Fairgrounds with two princesses chosen from FFA and 4H entrants. The contest is March 16 at 10 a.m. in the Merchants Building. Winners wear western wear supplied by the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce. entry deadline is March 10.
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South Plains
Wayland Homecoming Activities Continue at Plainview
Wayland Baptist College schedules a full day of events with alumni breakfasts, a downtown parade, the Future Pioneers program, reunions, and an annual banquet. Basketball games feature Flying Queens vs Ouachita and Pioneers vs McMurry. Queen crowning preceded by chapel remarks from Col. Henry S. Pennington.
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Plainview
Wayland Baptist College
Slaughter Memorial
Wayne's
Wayland Auditorium
Wayne’s
Flying Queens
Ouachita Baptist College
Pioneers
McMurry College
Plainview High
Davis Harrell
Amarillo
Students Demonstrate for Sandino Founder as Guardsmen Break Up Rally
In Managua on Thursday night students in National University gathered to honor Cesar Augusto Sandino, a long-dead anti American rebel. Guardsmen dispersed the crowd with rifle fire into the air and tear gas after stones were thrown. no injuries were reported.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Cesar Agusto Sandino
National University
Central American bottle factory eyed for four nations
Representatives from Costa Rica El Salvador Honduras and Nicaragua discuss establishing a glass bottle factory to serve their nations and Guatemala. The plan aims to bolster regional production and trade by creating a shared facility.
Mars Survey Balloon Bursts Amid 14 Postponements
Palestine UP I reports a large unmanned balloon bursting during fill for an 80 000 foot Mars survey, with no injuries. Princeton researchers faced 14 postponements and must wait for a replacement balloon from Schjeldahl Co. Ground crew were not endangered. the mission path and telescope were described with planned telemetry and tracking to Georgia.
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Palestine
UPI
Mars
Princeton University
Schjeldahl Co
Northfield
Minn
National Center For Atmospheric Research
Martian
Earth
Georgia
Outer Space
Gulf of Mexico
Space discoveries aid many fields says Johnson at San Angelo
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson told a city dinner that space research benefits medicine, manufacturing, and home systems. He cited stroke patient care, hat making, nonstick coatings, and thermoelectric tech, and urged expanded national education to boost engineers and physicians.
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Earth
Space Developments
Lawton
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Johnson
John
United States
Freeman cites de Gaulle statements worsening farm issues
Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman warned that Charles de Gaulle's recent pronouncements have intensified the United States farm problems amid tensions with the European Common Market.
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Orville Freeman
Charles de Gaulle
America
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